Projects by Artist: Stefan Gec
The Locus+ Archive (incorporating material from the Basement Group and Projects UK) hosted at the University of Sunderland currently has two PhD posts affiliated to it and is the largest archive of time-based work in Europe. It forms a comprehensive historical overview of contemporary art practice from the early '70s to the present, covering artists' projects from a variety of British and international contexts. Here is a snapshot of the projects that have been digitized to date.
Stefan Gec Buoy, 1996
A fully operational ocean-going buoy fabricated by recasting the steel from the artist's previous project Trace Elements (1990)
Read moreStefan Gec Natural History, 1995
Six large black and white photographic portraits of the first six firemen who died trying to contain the fire within the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl.
Read moreStefan Gec Trace Elements, 1990
Trace Elements was part of TSWA Four Cities. It comprised eight large bells cast from decommissioned Soviet submarines installed at the base of the High Level Bridge.
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